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(OpenPress) February 12, 2012 — Braeburn Entertainment, Ltd., and executive producer Richard B. Iott, have joined Alongside Night, LLC/Jesulu Productions, in the production of the feature film, Alongside Night, based on the popular and award-winning 1979 novel, adapted and being directed by the novel’s author, J. Neil Schulman, starring international film/TV star, Kevin Sorbo, and featuring an appearance by Dr. Ron Paul.


Kevin Sorbo
and J. Neil Schulman

Alongside Nightt is a near-future action/suspense feature following Elliot Vreeland, teenage son of Nobel-prize-winning economist Dr. Martin Vreeland (Kevin Sorbo), who finds himself on the run from FEMA when his family disappears during political chaos following the collapse of the U.S. dollar due to unsustainable government spending.

In addition to being an award-winning libertarian novelist and journalist, J. Neil Schulman is writer of the 1986 CBS Twilight Zone episode “Profile in Silver,” about a future history professor who travels back to 1963 Dallas and creates a self-destructing alternate timeline by preventing the JFK assassination, and Schulman is the writer/producer/director of the triple-film-festival-award-winning 2010 suspense-comedy, Lady Magdalene’s, starring the original Star Trek‘s Lt. Uhura, Nichelle Nichols.


Rich Iott

In addition to being a successful producer on over a dozen feature films including Call of the Wild 3D (Christopher Lloyd, Wes Studi, Veronica Cartwright), Beautiful Boy (Michael Sheen, Maria Bello), and Insight (Sean Patrick Flanery, Natalie Zea, Adam Baldwin), in 2010 Richard Iott was a Republican candidate for Congress from his home state of Ohio, endorsed by Tea Party supporters.

Alongside Night began principal photography in December 2011 and is planned to begin screening in Spring/Summer 2012.

Dr. Ron Paul wrote about the novel, “J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night may be even more relevant today than it was in 1979. Hopefully … this landmark work of libertarian science fiction will inspire a new generation of readers to learn more about the ideas of liberty and become active in the freedom movement.”

Alongside Night was published hardcover by Crown Publishing October 16, 1979 with the following endorsements:

Nobel laureate-in-economics Milton Friedman:
“A cautionary tale with a disturbing resemblance to past history and future possibilities.”

A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess:
“A remarkable and original story, and the picture it presents of an inflation-crippled America on the verge of revolution is all too acceptable. I wish, and so will many novelists, that I, or they, had thought of the idea first. A thrilling novel, crisply written, that fires the imagination as effectively as it stimulates the feelings.”


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Resurgence in Popularity:

Alongside Night holds the record for the most popular libertarian novel on the World Wide Web. Over 100,000 copies of Alongside Night were downloaded within five days in May, 2010. Since its release on June 13, 2009, over 340,000 copies of Alongside Night‘s 30th Anniversary PDF edition have been downloaded from www.AlongsideNight.net.

Libertarian Awards won:

1989: Libertarian Futurist Society, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
2009: Freedom Book Club, Book of the Month for May 2009
2009: Karl Hess Club, cited in the Samuel Edward Konkin III Memorial Chauntecleer Award for author J. Neil Schulman

Reviews:

Reason Magazine:
“One of the most widely hailed libertarian novels since the classic works of Ayn Rand.”

With Liberty:
“If Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged was the elementary school of a very effective education in freedom, then J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night has to be the post-graduate studies course.”

Science Fiction Review:
“Probably the best libertarian novel since Atlas Shrugged.”

Los Angeles Times Book Review:
“High Drama … A story of high adventure, close escapes, mistaken identities, and thrilling rescues. … A fast-moving tale of a future which is uncomfortably close at hand.”

Liberty Magazine:
“As the seventies ended … the time seemed ripe for a great libertarian novel to appear, and so it did. The novel was Alongside Night…”

Publishers Weekly:
“An unabashedly polemical, libertarian novel which packages its message in a fast, effectively told action adventure.”

Sunday Detroit News:
“Let me begin with a disclaimer: I don’t really agree with many of J. Neil Schulman’s ideas about society or politics or money. But his first book, Alongside Night, is as enjoyable piece of cautionary fiction as I have read in some years … Like Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein, Schulman can tell a good story!”

Plot Synopsis:

The American economy is in freefall. Markets are crashing. Inflation is soaring. Bankruptcies, foreclosures and unemployment are up, and even defense contracts are going overseas. The United States military is threatening to go on strike. Foreigners are buying up everything in America at firesale prices while gloating over the fall of a once great nation. Homeless people and gangs own the streets. Smugglers use the latest technology to operate bold enterprises that the government is powerless to stop, even with totalitarian spying on private communications. Anyone declared a terrorist by the administration is being sent to a secret federal prison where constitutional rights don’t exist.

And caught in the middle of it all are the brilliant teenage son of a missing Nobel-prizewinning economist, his best friend from prep school whose uncle was once an Israeli commando, and the beautiful but mysterious teenage girl he meets in a secret underground … a girl who carries a pistol with a silencer.

The setting could be next week. But this novel was written three decades ago.

Full information on the production is on the official movie website at http://www.alongsidenightmovie.com and on its Official Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/alongsidenightmovie .


Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Libertarian Ideals from the 2011 Anthem Film Festival! My comic thriller Lady Magdalene’s — a movie I wrote, produced, directed, and acted in it — is now available free on the web linked from the official movie website. If you like the way I think, I think you’ll like this movie. Check it out!

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